Applejax

I am still leveling my shammy, but in Vanilla, I PvPed a lot on pallys, including 19 and 29 brackets. Pallys have a bubble, instant full heal and plate for good survivability. With the talents I always picked up, I had an 8% boost to speed always, indoors and out. Popping Blessing of Freedom will break movement issues and you have a seal to slow with, too. SoC may not be the same as a chain of Enh procs, but can still get some nice hits out of it. As far as the shammy goes (in my leveling exp so far), it has more versatility as you can do melee or ranged pretty well. Totems and shocks have a wide variety of buffs and effects for any situation. Both classes have decent heals. Overall, I think pally's are harder to kill, but shammys have more DPS and burst to kill with. I am enjoying both so far, but seemed like pallys are more forgiving and noob friendly.

I remember from Vanilla running to the PvP Faction vendors to buy gear. So, I did a round on WSG and won. Since I was still questing in the Barrens, I took a trot up to the vendor there to see how much I'd need to save up for gear. When I talked to him, there was nothing listed there. Just a bunch of blank spots. Is this a bug or do I need to make Friendly with the faction to have anything show up. Been a few years and I can't remember it being blank like this. Thx!

Roger! Thx!

Yes, but as PvP and as a progression from Vanilla and not simply a fresh launch of BC.

Didn't vote for either. I'll just play on whichever one has no queue or the lowest queue, which will probably be Elysium.

Is all the AFKing and making the game queue hours long the new DDOS attack method or just Chinese gold farmers blocking access to players to leave less competition? If so, is there something we can do to fix this besides just more restarts? I see Elysium is looking at starting another fresh server, but I think it will be the same issue we have now. It is not that we only have players trying to get in. I think that the blocking access for normal players will be an epidemic on that one, too.

Once the new server comes up, all the new kids and gold farmers will want to hop on that one and push the wait line into a couple hours.. I'll try for the Elysium 1 after the second launches.

...and I have a couple questions. I plan on running an Orc and was looking to maximize on the axe by hitting the axe specialization and getting 5 points in cruelty. That way I could keep up deep wounds more. Does Deep Wounds make a significant amount of your damage output? Next, towards the end of leveling, I am getting 5 points in Iron Will to make my stun resistance even better. But on the first ranks in the Prot tree, would the 10 points in Def from Anticipation be of any use in PvP? (Disclaimer: I plan to mostly PvP at 60 and not too much worried about much on raiding atm) Thx for the input!

Roger! And thx to you all for your input. :)

Yeah, I have sadly noticed that Rend does not scale for anything. The Deep Wounds that proc off crits are the ones I am more interested in. The Rend would just be a filler to do something better than lose rage in a kiting situation. Wouldn't the stun resist also help vs BM hunters with Intimidate and from Pally stuns, too?

I was thinking of the Rend and Deep Wounds as a constant DoT in case of kiting, too. At least have something ticking while I am chasing some mage around. And I might try the 5 in shield then just to have an extra option. Those points won't be til I am in my 50's when I am working out my final points to get to the inp stun resist. Thx for your input.

I just downloaded the game and updated the DirectX as per the Beginner's Guide in forums. I got the game to launch, but it was in a smaller windowed form. After the cinematic, I was on the ELUA page and the mouse/hand would not move. I know it works because after a few minutes of playng with it, I got it to scroll over the Accept button. I played with this to get thru the ELUA pages but still has no visible moving hand on the main character page. I can get things to light up by mousing around, but the hand is still stuck in one place. Anyone have any way of making the mouse visable and working again? Thx!

I just did your suggestion, Ellipsea, and it the cursor is working! The screen is still small, but I believe I can fix that. Thx again for both of your posts and comments, Ellipsea and Undertanker! Can't wait for the launch!